Gaina sutras

SR No.: 020334
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hermann Jacobi
Publisher: Clarendon Perss
Publication Year: 1884
Total Pages: 385
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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AKARANGA SÛTRA.
them, or are not taken out, or killed or destroyed in them. (8)
A monk or a nun on a begging-tour should not accept any such-like raw plants1 as Ikshumeru, Ankakarelu, Kaseru, Samghâțika, Pâtiâlu. (9)
A monk or a nun on a begging-tour should not accept any such-like (vegetables) as Nymphaea or stalk of Nymphaea or the bulb of Nelumbium or the upper part or the filament of Lotus or any part of the plant. (10)
A monk or a nun on a begging-tour should not accept such-like raw substances as seeds or sprouts, growing on the top or the root or the stem or the knots (of a plant), likewise the pulp or blossoms of the plantain, cocoa-nut, wild date, and palmyra trees. (11)
A monk or a nun on a begging-tour should not accept any such-like raw unmodified substances as sugar-cane, which is full of holes, or withering or peeling off or corroded by wolves; or the points of reeds or the pulp of plantains. (12)
The same holds good with regard to garlic or its leaves or stalk or bulb or integument. (13) Likewise with regard to cooked fruits of Atthiya 2, Tinduka 3, Vilva, Sriparni3. (14)
A monk or a nun on a begging-tour should not accept such raw, unmodified substances as corn, clumps of corn, cakes of corn, sesamum, ground sesamum, or cakes of sesamum.
This is the whole duty, &c. Thus I say. (15)
Aegle Marmelos.
1 Of these plants only Kaseru, a kind of grass, Trapa Bispinosa are specialised in our dictionaries.
2 A certain tree.
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Diospyros Glutinosa.
5 Pistia Stratiotes.
and Samghâtika